Footage Surfaces From Suppressed Jerry Lewis Holocaust Movie ‘The Day The Clown Cried’ In the early ’70s,Jerry Lewisdirected and starred inThe Day the Clown Cried, which would go on to become of the most notorious “lost” films in cinema history. In fact the film isn’t really lost — it exists, and Lewis has a copy. Harry Shearer is among the very few people that claim to have seen it, and Lewis says it will never, ever be released....

Former ‘The Great British Baking Show’ Host Sue Perkins Is Steering A New Netflix Travel Show FormerThe Great British BakingShowhostSue Perkinsis trading baked goods for the Brazilian Amazon. The British TV presenter and comedian is taking the wheel for a Netflix travel documentary show that will take her on a journey through Latin America. Deadline reports that Sue Perkins will be journeying through the Latin American countries of Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil for a new Netflix travel show under the working titlePerfectly Legal....

George Lucas Is Too Popular To Get An Oscar, Didn’t Want New ‘Star Wars’ To Be A “Retro Movie” Before the release ofStar Wars: The Force Awakens, franchise creatorGeorge Lucashad spoken a bit about giving up the reins to the sci-fi saga, equating the situation to a break-up. Disneydidn’t want to make the kind of movie that Lucas had in mind, and so the studio and the man went their own separate ways....

Guillermo Del Toro Sets ‘Carnival Row’ As Amazon Series Guillermo del Torois building a carnival over at Amazon. Many years agoPacific RimwriterTravis Beachamsold a script calledA Killing on Carnival Row, and Guillermo del Toro was soon attached to direct. That film never happened, andother directorssuch as Tarsem and Neil Jordan flirted with making the movie, which is scripted as a noir-influenced fantasy mystery set in a city that is somewhat like London of centuries past....

How ‘Finding Dory’ Is About Dory Coming To Embrace Her Disability When aFinding Nemosequel was announced, many people, including myself, were skeptical of the motivations behind the announcement. Yesterday you learned how directorAndrew Stantoncame to find thata Finding Nemo sequel was necessary. And now we reveal why he felt Dory’s story was not over. On a trip to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, I got to preview 30 minutes ofFinding Dory. And I must admit, the 13-minute opening of the film (which I will not spoil) floored me....

How ‘The Cloverfield Paradox’ Connects With The Other ‘Cloverfield’ Movies Paramount and Netflix surprised the world when they releasedThe Cloverfield Paradoximmediately after the Super Bowl last night. Now thatwe’ve seen the movie, whatCloverfield Paradoxconnections are lurking in the film that link it to the rest of the Clover-verse? Let’s find out. 24 hours ago, we didn’t even know thetitleof this movie, let alone when we’d see a trailer. Today, many of us have already watched the completed final product....

How Did This Get Made: A Conversation With Al Ruddy, Producer Of ‘The Godfather,’ ‘Megaforce,’ And ‘Ladybugs’ This week, the gang atHow Did This Get Made?coveredMegaforce(1982), an over-the-top action film directed by famed stuntman, Hal Needham.The first person I got in contact with wasMegaforce’s producer,Al Ruddy. But unfortunately, he replied, “I’m participating in a German-produced documentary on the film currently and with my other projects, I simply have no spare time....

How Misery Echoes Stephen King’s Real Experiences We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Over a decade before Stephen King wasnearly killed when a car struck him, he wrote “Misery,” a 400-page psychological thriller that starts with a well-known author named Paul Sheldon nearly dying in a car accident in the middle of a snowstorm. Luckily(?) Paul is rescued from dying alone in the cold by a lonely middle-aged woman namedAnnie Wilkes, who just so happens to be his number one fan....

How The ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ Ending Came To Be Major spoilersforGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2lie ahead. Don’t read any further if you haven’t watched the movie! It was a sorrowful ending that reverberated through the galaxy, and cementedGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2as a worthy and emotional follow-up to its predecessor. And the ending ofGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2doesn’t — yet — fall into that old Marvel habit of bringing back once-deceased characters and cheapening their sacrifice....

I Love My Dad Review: Patton Oswalt Is Perfect In This Extraordinarily Cringeworthy Comedy [SXSW] Film festivals are often packed with stories about the estranged relationships between parents and their kids, but rarely are they as cringeworthy as the ill-advised father-son “reconciliation” in the new comedy “I Love My Dad,“premiering at the South By Southwest film festivalthis week. Inspired by writer/director James Morosini’s unbelievable real-life experience with his own father, the movie follows Patton Oswalt as Chuck, a deadbeat dad who has never truly been part of his son’s life since divorcing his mother (Amy Landecker)....

Interview: Adam Goldberg On His New Film (Untitled), Static Art World Culture, And Kicking The Bucket When it comes to a working actor who humorously perfects the modern guy as a hip scepter for perpetual thought and frazzled irritation,Adam Goldbergholds the key to today’s conflicted kingdom. Like his characters dating back to a break out role inDazed and Confusedand on to an ace performance in 2007’s2 Days in Paris(a rare romantic comedy that is meaningful and tolerable), part of Goldberg’s charm seems channeled via friendly reluctance....

James Cameron Can Express All His Artistic Observations Through ‘Avatar’ Sequels We’re back in a familiar part of a cycle with respect toJames Cameronand his films, where, in the long and seemingly fallow period between movies, people tend to question the wisdom of his next move. It happened beforeTitanic, and beforeAvatar. We know how both of those films turned out, at least from the perspective of business and cultural impact. But we still wonder about the value of making not one, but threeAvatarsequels....

Jude Law Replaces Joel Edgerton, Edgerton Replaces Michael Fassbender In Lynne Ramsay’s ‘Jane Got A Gun’ With just weeks to go until shooting,Lynne Ramsay’sJane Got a Gunhas just been hit with some very good news and some very bad news. Michael Fassbenderhas just dropped out of the hero role in the Western, leavingJoel Edgertonto take over the spot. But as Edgerton was originally slated to play the villain, that opens up an opportunity forJude Lawto step into his old role....